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Berta Lühmann (née Lehnasch) * 1911

Wilhelmstraße 32 (Harburg, Harburg)

HIER WOHNTE
BERTA LÜHMANN
GEB. LEHNASCH
JG. 1911
EINGEWIESEN 1937
HEILANSTALT LANGENHORN
"VERLEGT" 2.11.1943
HEILANSTALT
MESERITZ / OBRAWALDE
ERMORDET 6.11.1943

Berta Lühmann, née Lehnasch, born on 14.6.1911 in Harburg, admitted on 8.11.1937 to the Langenhorn Sanatorium and Nursing Home, 31.8.1942 to 3.9.1943 Lüneburg State Sanatorium and Nursing Home, 4.9.1943 Langenhorn Sanatorium and Nursing Home, on 2.11.1943 'transferred' to the Obrawalde Sanatorium and Nursing Home, murdered there on 6.11. 1943.

Wilhelmstraße 32, Harburg-Altstadt

Berta Lühmann was born in Harburg on June 14, 1911, as the daughter of Max and Caroline Lehnasch. She was married to Johann Lühmann, whose profession was motor vehicle driver. The young couple lived at in town Harburg in Neuland 37.

On September 14, 1937, Berta Lühmann was admitted to the Harburg-Wilhelmsburg Municipal Hospitals for a suicide attempt. She had a major cut on her neck and also made a very confused impression. When she accused herself of having shot her child, the police and the public prosecutor's office became involved.

It could not be determined whether Berta Lühmann had born children.

By order of the Harburg-Wilhelmsburg District Court of October 23, 1937, she was placed in the Langenhorn Sanatorium and Nursing Home. At this time, the Lühmann couple seems to have separated, because Berta Lühmann's address was now Wilhelmstraße 32 with her parents, her husband's address was Rosenweg with Brußling.

On November 8, 1937, Berta Lühmann was admitted to the Langenhorn Sanatorium and Nursing Home. There she was found to have further scars from "self-inflicted injuries". For many years she was perceived as a quiet patient who often cried - especially after visits from her father - but was often confused and felt persecuted. She repeatedly expressed a desire to be allowed to go home. The clinical picture did not change over the years.

With the date August 31, 1942, the Langenhorn’s medical record reads "Transferred to Lüneburg unchanged." The patient remained there until September 3, 1943. On September 4, 1943, the medical record reads "Returned from Lüneburg."

On November 2, 1943, Berta Lühmann was 'transferred' to the Sanatorium and Nursing Home Meseritz-Obrawalde.

In the Meseritz-Obrawalde Sanatorium, patients were systematically murdered starting in the summer of 1942. They died of mistreatment and/or malnutrition. Patients who were not fit for work were murdered after a few days by overdosing on Veronal and morphine or by air injection.

Berta Lühmann died on November 6, 1943, 3 days after arriving in Obrawalde. The official cause of death was "exitus due to debilitation from febrile intestinal catarrh."

Translation Beate Meyer

Stand: February 2023
© Margrit Rüth

Quellen: Staatsarchiv Hamburg 352-8/7 Abl.1/1995 Nr. 24471; Adressbuch Harburg-Wilhelmsburg 1937; Hamburger Gedenkbuch Euthanasie . DIE TOTEN 1939-1945 (S. 357); Thomas Beddies: Die pommersche Landesheilanstalt Obrawalde im brandenburgischen Kreis Meseritz 1939-1945, in: Baltische Studien. Band 84, S. 85–114.